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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing
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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!
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In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
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It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
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My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
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Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.
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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
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Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.
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I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
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Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
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